Computer Concepts / Applications OER

[Matt Connell]

Good afternoon, all,

As with everything, the textbook publishers are getting more and more outrageous to work with. I have converted all of my courses to OER with the exception of my Computer Concepts and Applications course, because it centers around Office 365.

My ask - I am looking for OER materials for this course which could include Word Processing examples (and problems), Presentation, and Spreadsheets. I can use any application but the book I have used focus on Microsoft products. I am happy to change if needed.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

~Matt

[Delmar Larsen]

Dear Matt:

You may find topics you are interested in Computer Applications
sub-bookshelf on the LibreTexts Workforce library:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Information_Technology/Computer_Applications

We have been working on ways to expand our ADAPT homework system to
address this topic. The immediate extension is using the LibreOffice
technology online that is part of our Forge platform. As you know, it is
similar in scope to MS products (and more advanced than Google), but not
identical. We have also just started looking at an extension for excel
that will grade uploaded xls files, but we are in the infancy of this
effort. Let me know you want to know more.

Regards,

Delmar

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[Lindsay Josephs]

Hi Matt,

OpenStax's Workplace Software and Skills textbook sounds like it'd be a great fit for your course! It's a business technologies textbook that includes chapters on both Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook, Calendar, and Teams) and Google Workspace. This free OER book includes practice exercises, case exercises, and dozens of real-world applications.

Explore the book here: https://openstax.org/books/workplace-software-skills/pages/preface.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Lindsay Josephs

Marketing and Communications Lead, OpenStax